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Soulja Boy responds to Cent.

By Valentina Russo
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Soulja Boy responds to Cent.

Hold onto your caps and gowns, because the academic calendar just got chaotic.

Soulja Boy has officially announced Rapper University, a direct counterpunch to Kai Cenat’s viral Streamer University initiative. According to Rap-Up, Soulja Boy is styling himself “Professor Draco” for the occasion, putting a rap spin on the whole Streamer University concept.

But this wasn’t born of wholesome creative inspiration. It arrived after a threat. As Hip-Hop Wired reports, Soulja Boy first sent what they describe as “the most aggressive Streamer University application yet” before pivoting and launching his own competing institution entirely. He wasn’t applying anymore. He was founding a rival.

r/LivestreamFail caught the moment the internet started paying attention, and paying attention it very much is. The spectacle of one man threatening his way from applicant to dean in the span of a news cycle is the kind of arc that screenwriters dream about.

Whether Rapper University produces curriculum, content, or merely more chaos remains to be seen. Soulja Boy has never been a man who waits around for permission, and in this particular drama, he clearly decided that if Kai Cenat gets a university, then so does he. Class is apparently in session, and the syllabus is already on fire.